Las Playas, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.59 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Las Playas
Las Playas serves about 486 people through 162 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brazoria County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0200067; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Las Playas's lead record
That is down 4.47 ppb from 5.06 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Las Playas is 6.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.06 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
How Las Playas compares
Of the 4,447 Texas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.28 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 202 have gone over at some point. Las Playas's 0.59 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Texas and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
155 other systems share Brazoria County; 58 of them have a higher latest lead result than Las Playas. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Pearland | 125,828 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Lake Jackson | 27,314 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Alvin | 26,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Angleton | 19,429 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Clute | 10,604 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Freeport | 10,594 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Iowa Colony | 9,978 | - |
| City Of Manvel | 8,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Richwood | 7,605 | 2.26 ppb |
| Brazoria County Mud 6 | 6,926 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, TX may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Las Playas whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.